Drinking water: a human right and a social good or commodity.
The result of water privatization has been and is disastrous for the people who have suffered and continue to suffer from it.
Until the late 1980s, the idea of considering water as a commodity subject to the laws of market supply and demand had never been raised. This concept gained momentum in the 1990s. Thus, the principle “If I have money, I have access to drinking water; if I don’t, I either die of thirst or drink contaminated water, and may luck help me survive” was embodied. Water, in short, ceased to be a human right and a social good.
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